Miscellaneous
The
following publications and papers deal with a wide variety of topics
including green building, domestic hot water, photovoltaics, black stains,
wood efficiency & durability, etc.:
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Analysis of Indoor Environmental Data
March 2006, Armin Rudd, BSC and Hugh Henderson, Jr., P.E., CDH Energy
Corp. This summary and analysis of indoor temperature and humidity data
has been collected over a three and a half year period from 43 houses
located mostly in the hot, humid gulf coast region.
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Understanding Air Barriers
2005, Joseph Lstiburek, Ph.D., P.Eng. Controlling
heat flow, airflow, moisture flow and solar and other radiation will
control the interactions among the physical elements of the building, its
occupants and the environment. One of the key strategies in the control of
airflow is the use of air barriers.
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Community
Scale Evaluation Results
2004,
Peter Yost. Using four Building Science Consortium
Building America community-scale projects, this paper investigates the
nature, strength, and durability of connections between high performance
dwellings and developments.
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Using
Wood Efficiently: From Optimizing Design to Minimizing the Dumpster
August 2002, Stephen Baczek, Peter Yost, and Stephanie Finegan. Americans
have been building homes with wood -- shaping logs, joining timbers,
nailing studs -- for almost 400 years. Our current approach --
stick-framing -- grew popular in the mid-1800?s (particularly in the
rapidly growing ?West?) because it took less skill, required simpler
tools, and took fewer people than timber framing. We apparently really
like waste haulers, too. The NAHB Research Center reports that the ?typical?
home generates about 3,500 pounds of wood waste during its construction,
about half of which is solid sawn lumber.
- BSC Photovoltaic Primer
June 2002, Building Science Corporation. PV systems have come a long way in
the last two decades. While they may not work for all homes, residential
installations are becoming a practical reality under more and more
conditions. Here are the nitty-gritty details of photovoltaic systems. The
details are meant to ?de-mystify? both the technology and its economics.
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Setting
Up Performance and Prescriptive Criteria for Domestic Water Use and Construction Waste Generation
December 2001, Peter Yost, Building Science Corporation.
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The
Pressure Response of Buildings
January 2002, Joseph W. Lstiburek, Phd., P.Eng. Learn about how the
pressure level in building affects infiltration and exfiltration and its
impact on mechanical systems.
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The Building America Program: Systems Engineering for
Resource and Energy Efficient Homes
August 2000, Betsy Pettit and Ann Edminster (based on "Case
Studies in Resource-Efficient Residential Building: The Building America
Program", ACEEE Proceedings, August, 2000). Concise overview of the
BSC approach to the Building America program, including the benefits to
homeowners, builders, and the environment.
- Establishing Priorities for the Design of Affordable,
Environmentally Responsible Housing in Dallas, Texas, a Mixed Climate Zone
1994 EEBA Conference Proceedings, Dallas, Texas, Betsy Pettit, AIA
and Joseph Lstiburek. From an early BSC project, this paper has a focus on
innovative engineering and design features that significantly boosted the
energy and resource efficiency of a low-cost housing project in urban Dallas, TX.
- Black Stains
on Carpets and Ghosting of Framing
1999, Joseph Lstiburek. In this piece, Lstiburek brings building science and
Halloween as closely together as is humanly possible. Another triumph of
physics over "phenomenon."
- Wood Durability
1999, Joseph Lstiburek. "We have accepted that design and
construction must be responsive to varying seismic regions, wind loads and
snow loads. Yet we typically ignore temperature, humidity, rain and the
interior climate." This article puts the durability of wood in the
proper context-the environmental context in which we ask it to perform.
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